A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

[Ben Scott]

On 7/10/06, hewitt_tech <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
> But the interesting part of this is that the customer wanted Exchange server
> to centralize their email, contacts and schedules. With the server down, the
> email clients don't work and they can't access any of the messages stored on
> the server (of course).

  It doesn't have to be that way.  It sounds like Offline and/or
Cached Mode are disabled in the client (Outlook).  Don't do that, and
you'll have the capability to run off-line.

> When the customer's server is available again I'm going to de-centralize
> their email and set up batch jobs on each workstation to copy their email
> back to the server for archiving purposes.

  Bad idea.  PST = BAD.

  Google for "PST = BAD" to find out why.

-- Ben